What books are you currently reading?

1/23/2012 | William Eaton

[WilliamEaton]

What books are people currently reading? Any particular fiction or non-fiction of note? Any recommendations from some recent reads?

I just downloaded the novel Hunter by Robert James Bidinotto for my kindle. It's an indie novel and has received good reviews on Amazon. Will report back once I finish up.

[Cincinatus]

Just finishing Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson. Highly recommended -- explains why western European Christian civilization spread over the entire world in the last 200 years. An excellent rebuttal to the Marxist "imperialism" meme.

[NTHockey]

Just finished “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu. Next, Clauswitz.

[firebrand]

Read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy so I could understand the movie. I see why Anthony Lane basically said to go back to the books for the real le Carre. Yet the movie had some dramatic scenes that were not in the book and were very memorable and not the least out of place: Jim killing the bird (an owl in the book, and it happens “offstage”), the bee in the car full of important espionage types (hilarious), Jim punching Ricki Tarr (and knocking a tooth out? went by too fast), and most entertaining, the Christmas party, with spies at their most Britishly merry and a cameo of Le Carre (standing next to a Santa in a Lenin mask).

This has turned into a movie post, but the book is truly excellent. Carre can write. Is there another British spy writer even near his talent? (Don’t say Ian Fleming.)

[firebrand]

Also just read Harry Stein’s I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican. Not deep, but sadly familiar and funny at the same time.

[liberalism is suicide]

“Omdurman” by Philip Ziegler

[~Vor~]

I love Connelly’s Harry Bosch detective series for light reading...on my 3rd one since Christmas...so far I’ve read Black Ice, Echo Park and The Closers...I also read and enjoyed Jeff Ashton’s, Imperfect Justice...

[bonfire]

Keep reading. Excellent series.

[RightField]

Simple Church

What We Knew

[bmwcyle]

Ameritopia — What else?

[Joe Boucher]

American Sniper

[bkepley]

The Vigilantes of Montana, Dimsdale, for I think the second time.

[Sawdring]

The Mote In God’s Eye.

[Celtic Conservative]

The Irish epic "the cattle raid of Cooley" aka "tain 'bo Cualgne". It's the story of what could be termed an Irish "hercules" that dates back to pre Christian times.

CC

[Logic n' Reason]

Bought a Kindle...it makes things very easy!

So...:
"Bleak House",
"Last of the Mohicans",
"Mein Kampf",
"Brothers, Rivals, Victors",
and "Falling Upward" (a waste of time, but I promised my Mom I'd give it a read).

[Logic n' Reason]

An extraordinary book!! And as palpably true today and it was when first penned in the early 90s!

Made me so mad when I read it, that my girlfried at the time would not let me read it just before going to bed!!!

[Logic n' Reason]

"My List of Conservative Accomplishments” by Mitt Romney.
It was blank.

I have that one...it's on my bookshelf right next to "The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro T. Agnew" {blank also}, and "Important and Weighty Thoughts on the State of the World" by Joey Biden {blank also}

[Nepeta]

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks....

I read that about a year ago. It's fascinating. Recommended.

[billhilly]

James Clavell is my favorite novelist. Shogun was the best novel I ever read. Tai Pan was the second best.

I have recently finished Killing Lincoln and the Last Lecture, both excellent books.

[dearolddad]

Re-reading William L. Shires’s “The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich.”

[billhilly]

James Clavell is my favorite novelist. Shogun was the best novel I ever read. Tai Pan was the second best.

I have recently finished Killing Lincoln and the Last Lecture, both excellent books.